What's extra troubling about Scientology scooping up desperate runaway gay teens is that some teens' own families abused them and drove them out for not being straight. The teens straggle into more tolerant coastal cities like LA, and then Scientology, in the guise of "helping" them, abuses some teens further by making them try to "audit the gay away" and work for slave-labor wages.

It's the shame of some right-wing farming / logging / mining areas that they expel their gay children, and it's the shame of LA police and bureaucrats that they tolerate Scientology's further exploitation of these children.

The article has a good historical summary and a great photo of you, AGP.